Daily Meme: Another Week, Another News Cycle Dominated by Obamacare

The slow, messy rollout of the Affordable Care Act's biggest ticket items is D.C.'s latest shiny thing. You can expect new stories about the state of health care—and the state of Healthcare.gov's website—from now until at least the first few weeks of the new year, when enrollees start to get insurance.

Some of the stories have useful information, like this chart-packed one by Sarah Kliff, which she puts together every day.

And anyway, as Larry Summers points out, "it is indefensible to refuse to appropriate money to carry out a programme and then attack it on the grounds that it is being under-resourced." (He's talking about you, Republicans)

All this doomsday reporting and analyzing misses out on a few important details about the things Obamacare has already gotten right.

Like the fact that up to 7 million Americans could qualify for free insurance under these new exchanges.